Today marks one year since the first national lockdown.
The pandemic is a situation that no-one expected to live through but local people and businesses gathered together to help those shielding or self-isolating.
We looked back through the archives to this time last year and remembered some of those who went above and beyond to help locals living in Wishaw and the surrounding communties.
Coronavirus can’t stop us was the message from a whole host of groups.
They included a group of residents in Branchalwood who had been handing out cards door-to-door to help those self-isolating pick up essential supplies.
Staff at Getting Better Together (GBT) in Kirk Road, Shotts, were busy preparing hundreds of cooked meals and delivering them directly to the doors.
Go4Pizzas in Craigneuk served up a slice of goodwill by delivering soup and pasta for no charge.
A professional singer helped keep frontline NHS workers at University Hospital Wishaw in high spirits as they listen in to live concerts from his garden.
Alan Walker, who sings with successful tribute group The Jersey Notes, streamed a performance for his neighbours and friends via Facebook Live not realising that hospital staff were also listening in.
Youngsters at the Kirktonholme Nursery, based in the grounds of University Hospital Wishaw, went viral with a Tik-Tok video ahead of a second nationwide clap to show our appreciation to the workers during the pandemic.
Big hearted Newmains man Jordan Currie, 25, forked out his own cash to buy ingredients to make hot soup for pensioners after hearing an elderly man who lives nearby hadn’t eaten for days.
The Good Samaritan set about making soup but didn’t drive so he called on two of his friends – brothers Callum, 23, and Zak Ritchie, 21 – to help deliver it to vulnerable elderly people stuck indoors.
And A Wishaw piper brought a tear to the eye of a pensioner celebrating her 100th birthday in isolation.
Hayden McAvoy surprised Isa Paterson at her home as a crowd of neighbours watched on.
